WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has stayed largely out of the presidential campaign, said he doubted claims by Democratic challenger John Kerry that he could attract more US allies on Iraq if he defeats President George W. Bush on November 2.

"I don't want to get into the political debate, as you noted, and Senator Kerry can make these statements, but I'm not sure that he can really back them up or that suddenly support that is not there now will magically appear with a change in the presidency," Powell told Fox News.

A pillar of Kerry's presidential campaign has been his promise to obtain more international support for the US effort in Iraq.

Kerry regularly accuses Bush of having alienated traditional US allies in his effort to go to war against Iraq at any cost.

The other countries are going to flock to join Kery in Iraq. Besides all those people he gets out of their wheelchairs will be there too! Along with them folks he met that one Christmas in Cambodia :-)

Germany threw out some red meat to the American people the other day. Their defense minister was saying that they might consider sending troops "if the situation changed." In other words, if Bush lost. The thought of foreigners trying to weigh in on our election infuriates me, and I don't see why many Americans (i.e. Kerry supports) don't have enough national pride to feel the same way.

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